700/703 MB CD size

[Jerome Haltom]

Sort of off topic, but I wanted to drop it out there.

I was trying to get my dad to download and run the Live CD a few days
ago, and he could not figure out what he was supposed to do with the
ISO. Of course, XP has no way to burn an ISO. And there are no
instructions on the site suggesting how to accomplish it.

He basically did as Paul said, dragged it to the CD burner software.

Wonder if there would be a good way to distribute a CD burner
application along with the .iso for Windows users.

On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 15:25 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Jani Monoses wrote:
> > The current Ubuntu CD image size limit is 700
> 
> It is, as you note (80*60*75*2048 bytes), hopefully plus lead-in and
> lead-out sector allowances and often with a tiny little bit extra (see
> "overburning").
> 
> Where is the comparision being done, is it the number of bytes in the
> resulting ISO (eg. inclusive of meta-data), or the number of bytes of the
> packages, in the hope that the final result (metadata added) will fit?
> 
> One advantage of producing an exactly size .iso might be that people would
> not try to burn it by dragging it *as a file* (rather than image) onto a
> CD-R; the software would complain earlier it wouldn't fit.
> 
> If you're *really* tight of space, there's about half-a-megabyte (N files *
> ~1024) of it spare at the end of unfilled sectors (less on the desktop CD).
> 
> 	-Paul
> -- 
> Why do one side of a triangle when you can do all three.  Somewhere, GB.
> 
>